Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedAlison Gopnik: belief
17 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture
“I think if you look at someone like Eric Turkheimer’s work, one of the things that comes out of that is that your intuition to begin with, “Okay, well, we’re going to look at the twins, and if there’s a high correlation between what one twin does and the other twin, it’s going to be nature.”
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- 17 Dec 2025
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…Some of my colleagues — they’re big fans of using twin studies to try to separate out nature from nurture. Do you find that enterprise convincing? Well, any science that people do is interesting. I think if you look at someone like Eric Turkheimer’s work, one of the things that comes out of that is that your intuition to begin with, “Okay, well, we’re going to look at the twins, and if there’s a high correlation between what one twin does and the other twin, it’s going to be nature. If there isn’t, it’s going to be nurture.” I think increasingly, that kind of model has turned out to just be wrong. That’s the wrong model. It’s just too simple. What’s wrong with it?…
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